This caught my eye on the news. A motorcyclist filmed his last ride as he collided with a car at 97mph, killing him and obliterating the car and his bike.
I will not post a link to the video as it is very graphic but if you search the MSN website then it will be on there.
I did watch the video and you can tell the biker was travelling at a ridiculous speed and over took a car just before the fatal collision. You cannot see the car that hit him until a split second before impact.
What amazes me is that the driver of the car was prosecuted earlier in the year. No doubt the Police will have other reasons for bringing the prosecution, but here are some very revealing stats i have just worked out -
At 60 mph you are travelling at 88 feet per second (1.67% of a mile per second), at 97 mph you would be doing 142 feet per second, (or 2.7% of a mile per second) that's a whopping difference of 54 FEET per second or 1.02% of a mile per second
Certainly makes you think when you speed how much distance you travel in the blink of an eye.